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Unless I suddenly stop reading, this year I will surpass the number of books read in previous years since I started keeping track at Goodreads. I have been so much more interested in reading than in writing. I blame the Kindle, among other things. I don't recall feeling the reading bug bite me so bad since I was an awkward kid in junior high. In August, I read the entire Sookie Stackhouse
series in 2 weeks. Some of us who've been attending the Read the Classics series didn't want to take a summer break, so we read and discussed Absalom, Absalom!
, Heart of Darkness
, and The Sun Also Rises
. Especially notable from my Hollywood Library book group were The Echo Maker
and The Sparrow
, though we've been reading some great books all along. Here's this year's schedule.
I also got to see Margaret Atwood and Ursula LeGuin as part of Portland Arts and Lectures the same month we read Oryx and Crake
I will say though, that because I have fully embraced my preference for reading books on the Kindle, I have returned many library books. Often I would say all those books with all those due dates were like a ball and chain. What a burden bounty can be, eh?
So I was thinking, I must have spent a lot more money on books, right, now that, if I have the choice, I read it on the Kindle? I received my first Kindle for my birthday in May 2009. (Oh yes...I did buy the "latest generation" of the Kindle, and I am happy I did. My first one went to a good home.) I looked at the money I spent on books from May 2008 to May 2009, and then from May 2009 to May 2010. I actually only went from $270 to $336. The immediate past 12 months, however, add up to $570. All those Stackhouse books.... So yeah, you could say the Kindle has rekindled my love of book-reading.
Everyday Zen
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